35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria BULGARIAN INIS CENTRE INIS INPUT AND PRODUCTION Ms. Albena Georgieva Bulgarian Nuclear Regulatory Agency

35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria Content: Bulgarian INIS centre – main activities Sources of nuclear information in Bulgaria Input process Literature reported to INIS Database Bulgarian INIS input Information services at Bulgarian INIS Centre INIS System promotion Challenges

35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria Bulgarian INIS centre – main activities Bulgaria is a member of INIS since its establishment in 1970 Bulgarian INIS centre: *fulfills all INIS responsibilities – input preparation, system promotion, search in INIS database *deals and manages with all type of nuclear information *participates (collects papers and promote INIS products) in conferences in the field of nuclear science and applications in Bulgaria *participates in the INIS system development *cooperates with INIS Secretariat and other INIS centres *manages NRA library - about 2500 titles, mostly IAEA publications

35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria Bulgarian INIS centre – main activities (2) Cooperation with INIS Secretariat: Bulgarian INIS Centre: *Has long traditions in cooperation with INIS Secretariat. *Active participates in INIS evens and activities (Training Seminars, ILO Meetings, Joint INIS/ETDE Technical Committee, Distance Learning Program ect.) *Relies on INIS Secretariat support in input preparation (bibliographic part and subject analyses) *Supports the INIS Secretariat initiatives like: INIS NCL Document Delivery Services, Voluntary Input; CAI Testing, INIS Consortium to access online journals ect.

35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria Sources of nuclear information in Bulgaria:  Nuclear facilities: *Kozloduy NPP (6 WWER units) *State Enterprise RAW - Permanent Repository for Radioactive Waste near Novi Han, Specialized Division for Radioactive Waste at the Kozloduy NPP site *Belene NPP Project  Educational and research facilities: *Sofia University *Technical University of Sofia *Medical University of Sofia *Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy

35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria Input process 1. Selection of relevant Literature All the literature in the scope of the database to which at least one appropriate subject category can be assigned 2.Subject Classification The primary subject category determined by the main topic of the document If there are other significant topics, one or more secondary subject categories can be assigned in addition 3. Abstracting Each input item contains an English abstract which should be informative whenever possible 4. Subject Indexing Selection of a set of descriptors that describes the subject content of the piece of literature and expressing the meaningfull information content in the language of the database using the controlled vocabulary of the Thesaurus Understanding of the content.

35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria Input process (2): Advantages/benefits of the input preparation process Each document has an unique classification (category) Information is pre-analyzed by specialists Precise indexing (the most narrow terms are used) Informative abstract More relevant retrieval of information

35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria Literature reported to INIS Database: Conventional literature (CL) – 12 Journals 6 Key Journals: 4Bulgarian Journal of Physics 4Proceedings of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 4BgNS Transactions 4Energetic 4Sofia University Year-book – Faculty of Physics 4Roentgenology and Radiology

35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria Literature reported to INIS Database (2): Non-conventional literature Proceedings from conferences: 4Regularly organized: 3 Annual conferences: Energy Forum, Bulatom Conference, Bulgarian Nuclear Society Annual Conference 4 biennial conferences: International conference on WWER fuel, National Conference on Biomedical Physics and Engineering, Congress of the Bulgarian Radiology Association, International School on Nuclear Physics, Neutron Physics and Nuclear Energy 4Non- regularly organized on the following topics: WWER reactors, RAW management, metrology ect.

35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria Bulgarian INIS input

35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria Bulgarian INIS Input

35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria Bulgarian input to INIS DB

35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria Information services at Bulgarian INIS Centre Bulgarian INIS Centre has access to all products and services and provides information searches for all users in Bulgaria Available products and services: INIS Database on Internet INIS Database on CD-ROM INIS NCL collection Search in INIS Database Search in other Nuclear Related Databases INIS Database Usage - Before April 2009: Paid subscribers to CD-ROM - 1 Free complimentary access for Universities/Academic Institutions – 5 Free access to Bulgarian INIS Centre

35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria INIS System promotion activities: Printing and distributing promotional materials Advertising INIS on Specialized Journals Presenting INIS system during conferences Distributing of INIS Thematic CD on conferences Publishing regularly news on Bulgarian INIS web page

35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria Challenges: 1.There is some relevant literature that is not being captured for the INIS Database due to: limited financial and human resources theses and conference papers are difficult to obtain 2. Need for specialists in different subject areas (one person can't have qualifications in all topics which are in the scope of INIS”) 3. Identifying new INIS products users and input sources 4. Knowledge preservation in the field

35-th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, October, 2010, Vienna Austria Thank you for your attention!